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20.1 Legacy Series / v20.1 Hangs during install at booting

« on: May 17, 2020, 01:45:51 pm »

Hi Folks,
When trying to install v20.1 from a USB onto a dedicated fanless pc (Braswell Celeron N3160/J3160 1.6GHz quad core)  things start well but then when it gets to the Booting stage it never gets any further. This looks like the problem highlighted in the forum post: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11869.0

The same problem occurs if I try to install PFSense.

I can install Untangle OK.

Any ideas as to a workaround.

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20.1 Legacy Series / Re: Cannot Get NTOPNG Geo Mapping To Work

« on: May 05, 2020, 05:04:55 pm »

Dear GPB
I spent at least 10 hours trying to get his working. Most of  YouTube videos seemed focused upon the symptoms of the Maxmind licensing changes.
I only copied the EN databases across. I assumed they were all the same content just different languages.
I don't see the google map window in NTOPNG anymore. Have you got this working or maybe its no longer supported.
My CPU has increased but I have very little throughput so its no proving to be a problem.

AT the end of the day, whilst its interesting learning about Linux and stuff, paying $50 per year to Untangle for something that just works (for my basic needs)  may be a compelling argument.

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20.1 Legacy Series / Re: Cannot Get NTOPNG Geo Mapping To Work

« on: May 05, 2020, 01:25:51 pm »

Dear GPB,
Thank you so much for providing these instructions. I have now got NETOPNG to display the geo mapping data.
I will write up a dummies guide on this for other users as the instructions that are provided I feel are "economic" and do not cater for the newbies.

So from this experience I have some queries that perhaps someone in the know can answer;
1. According to the OPNSense manual you have to cut and paste just one Maxmind  URL (which applies to Countries) into the firewall alias when it seems to me that two others are needed - ASN and cities)
2. According to the OPNSense manual the URL that is pasted into the points to CSV files. From GBP's instructions the mmdb files are the ones that work ( I can vouch for this).
3. Do CSV files work and if not then the wrong files re[ being pointed to?
4. The Netopng instructions are obviously for a vanilla install as the directory structure described does not apply to OPNSense, It would be useful if there was a document hat detailed the file locations perhaps?
5. The idea that creating the Firewall alias is "all these to it" is totally misleading. Dong this seems to achieve  nothing regardless of how many times you stop/start services or reboot the system.

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20.1 Legacy Series / Cannot Get NTOPNG Geo Mapping To Work

« on: May 03, 2020, 10:36:49 pm »

Hi, I am fairly new to OPNsense and am evaluating with it with a view to migrating from Untangle. The feature that I need is Geo mapping  within NTOPNG but I have not been able to get it to work. I can get NTOPNG working ok. I have followed the instructions in the OPNSense manuals (which seemed easy enough) but still dont get any GEO Map options in NTOPNG.

Yes I have the Maxmind key and its installed.

I have looked at the installation guide on GITHUB but I don't understand how to install packages. I've googled OpenBSD commands but none of these seem to work. Also I cannot find any NTOPNG directories that are mentioned on posts or YouTube.

Also another challenge seems to be the the GUI of NTOPNG seems to have changed (from the one commonly seen on YouTube) . I don't see where you have to install the Google API key, so I assume you get that goodness when the Geo Map function is actually working.

One last thing which may be connected. I'm running my OPNsense as a VM in Virtual Box. When the VM is booted i'm seeing a lot of REDIS error messages in the VM console. I know there is a dependency upon the REDIS service so I always make sure this is running - but it makes no difference.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.